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Show . History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I NTER MOUNTAI N. Mayor liock of Salt Lake City bud n narrow escape from death by aspliyx-fution aspliyx-fution Sunday night. He was found by his wife- In an unconscious condition, condi-tion, but an early recovery Is expected. A leaky gas healer in the bathroom was tne cause. Henry Good, of Richfield, and George Powell of Caldwell, Idaho, were killed, and twenty-one freight cars were demolished when a string of twenty-two freight cars broke loose mid ran away down Medbury hill, west f( Glenns Ferry, Idaho, and collided with a passenger train. The machinery for the trial of the eleven alleged I. W. W.s charged with the murder of four American Iegion men on Armistice day at Cenlralla, is being set in motion at Montesano, Washington. Two children, aged 'i and 5, of Charles Itainey, of Twin Falls, Idaho, were burned to death in a tent tit the rear of the Kainey home, used for Htnring potatoes and in which was kept a stove. Mrs. Kidney was seriously ser-iously burned in an unsuccessful effort ef-fort to save her children. Pleas of eastern and western suffrage suf-frage leaders for a special session of the Washington legislature to ratify the suffrage amendment to the federal const i tut Ion will not be granted, it is announced. The Colorado State Federation of Labor lias expelled D. C. Morrell, vice-president vice-president and member of the executive board for alleged activity in the ranks of the I. W. W. George Osborne, manager of a ranch owned by Governor Carey of Wyoming, was shot; and dangerously wounded on the streets of Douglas, Wyo., by David Knighton, wealthy stockgrower. A bill aimed ut the exclusion of Japanese Jap-anese from Oregon will be introduced at the special session of the state legislature, it is announced by Barge E. Leonard, a representative of the American Legion. DOMESTIC. Information regarded by government govern-ment agents at San Antonio, Texas, as evidence that Carranza government officials are countenancing a plan to establish a Bolshevik regime in Mexico Mex-ico and that the radical program is supported largely by evaders of the American army draft will be given to the senate siib-committee investigating Mexican affairs. Warning of price hazards which may confront wheat and flour handlers after the withdrawal of government control when the activities of the grain corporation tire brought to an end in June, are contained in a circular letter let-ter sent by Julius H. Barnes, wheat director, to. the holders of the 42,01X1 licenses he has issued. Lawrence Lackey is under arrest at Alliance, Neb., charged with the murder mur-der ot his 7-year-old daughter by giving giv-ing her poisoned candy. A record sale of thoroughbred hogs was made when thirty-six Poland China sows were auctioned for ,$55,975, an average of $1554.84 each, at the farm near Lake Geneva, Wis., of William Wil-liam Wrlgley, Jr., who took 29S stock-raisers stock-raisers as his guests on a special train irom Chicago. Miss Lucy Page Gaston lias opened headquarters at Chicago to campaign for the Republican nomination for president on an anti-tobacco platform. Jack Dempsey was charged with having "apparently skulked in hiding from the draft boards," during the late war, and Georges Carpentier was made a life honorary member of the post, at a meeting of the El Paso post of the American Legion. Protest against the decision of Attorney At-torney General Palmer on December 4 in turning over 100,000 acres of oil lands in California, estimated to be worth $500,000,000, to the Southern Pacific Pa-cific company, without an appeal from the adverse judgment of a lower court, has been made by Gifford Pinchot, president of the National Conservation Conserva-tion association, in a letter to the attorney at-torney general. John Thomas, 23 years old. is dead, and his brothers, Michael and George, ind his father-in-law, Michael Pintar, all of Coalton, 111., are seriously ill, the result, it is said, of drinking homemade home-made raisin wine. The strike in the steel mills and furnaces, called September 22. and which at its inception involved 867,000 men, was officially called off on Jan-nary Jan-nary 8 by the national committee, after an all-day meeting. The San Francisco criminal courts were cleared on January 7 of all the murder cases growing out of the preparedness pre-paredness day bomb explosion of July 22, 11)16, against Thomas J. Mooney and one against Warren K. Billings. A Plumb plan for all American industry, in-dustry, modeled after the plan if the game name for the railroads, has been 'prepared and is expected to be publicly pub-licly announced soon: O W. Rojt, cashier of the State bank of P.rownsdale, Minn., has confessed con-fessed to forgery of notes amounting lo approximately $oU,000. Jean Betacour, 13 years old, was shot and killed at eriiMii, a suburb of Los Angeles, as the result", the police said, of a juvenile fend centering about rights of rival gangs lo a junk pile ill the bed of the I.os Angeles liver. One thousand American soldiers, constituting the last contingent of the A. K. F. to return from Siberia where their places are being taken by troops of the regular army, have arrived ut San Francisco. Air mail service between Omaha and the east was established January H "ben Walter J. Smith arrived ai Omaha from Chicago, with an airplane loaded with firsr-class mail. Smith established es-tablished a record of three hours and lil'ly-six minutes flying time, and arrived ar-rived in Omaha one hour ahead of schedule?. WASHINGTON. President Wilson took an extended walk in the White House grounds Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson. This was an "early spring day" in Washington, and the president quickly took advantage of the mild weather by seeking the outside air. Another Liberty loan will be necessary neces-sary if congress embarks on "new fields of large expenditures or reduces the aggregate volume of taxes," Secretary Sec-retary Glass declared in a statement setting forth the government's financial finan-cial condition. Loans aggregating .$150,000,000 for food relief in Austria, Poland and other European countries and Armenia to prevent "a general disintegration of political cohesion in western Europe" were proposed to congress by Secretary Secre-tary Glass, who sttid it miglit be necessary neces-sary to increase this amount to $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 after the full situation in Europe had been assessed. An anti-sedition bill, describing severe se-vere penalties for acts or propaganda advocating overthrow of the government govern-ment by force or violence, was passed by the senate January 10 without a record vote. The measure now goes to the house. Victor Berger, Milwaukee Socialist, re-elected from the Fifth Wisconsin congressional district, after he had been refused membership in the house "because he gave aid and comfort to the enemy," was denied his seat again on January 10 by a vote of 328 to 5 FOREIGN. Ratifications of the treaty of Versailles Ver-sailles were exchanged and peace between be-tween Germany, France, Great Britain and the other allied and associated powers, with the exception of the United States, became effective at 4 :16 o'clock Saturday afternoon, January Jan-uary 10. The city of Vera Cruz and several towns and villages in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, were shaken Saturday night and Sunday by earthquake . shocks of tremendous violence. A dispatch from Genoa says the Italian steamer Frincipessa Mafalda is reported to have struck a mine and sunk with the loss of 700 lives. A large emigration movement from Poland to the United States awaits adequate steamship facilities, it is said. Returned Canadian soldiers who have taken up agriculture have obtained ob-tained . loans aggregating $50,699,003 from the Soldiers' Settlement board, it has been announced. The first chamber of the Dutch parliament par-liament has drafted and presented to the cabinet a memorandum suggesting that it is now desirable that Holland request former Emperor William of Germany to return to his own country. The situation in Russia is about as bad as could be from anti-Bolshevik point of view, according to British war office reports, and there are few signs indicating any likely improvement. Twenty persons lost their lives when the ocean-going tug Le Pluvier went down with all on board between Toulon Tou-lon and Marseilles, France. Twice within the past Week Francisco Fran-cisco Villa has attempted to attack trains on the railroad south of Chihuahua Chi-huahua City, Mexico, apparently to reliable re-liable information. He also had two small encounters with federal troops during the same period, it was said. The German army, which numbered 280,000 men on January 1, will be reduced re-duced monthly so that by April the strength laid down by the peace treaty will be attained, it is announced. The Russian newspaper Prisyne contains con-tains a report of the execution of Admiral Ad-miral Bakhireff, who fought brilliantly against the German fleet in 1917. The admiral, says the newspaper, was accused ac-cused of plotting against the soviet government. Only two houses are left standing in die viljage of Coutzlan, state of Vera Cruz, where no estimate has yet been placed on the number of dead and injured in-jured resulting from Saturday night's earthquake, according to reports received re-ceived at Mexico City. The Bolivian congress has passed a bill legalizing the circulation of gold as a medium of exchange. The government gov-ernment will issue a decree fixing the equivalances between American gold standards and Bolivian money. Nikolai Lenine, Russian Bolshevik premier, has made a new peace offer to the allies, which is being taken to London by Colonel Tallents, British representatives in the Baltic states. Among other conditions included in the offer is a promise to abolish terrorism ter-rorism and the activity of revolutionary revolution-ary tribunals, according to an Esthon-ian Esthon-ian newspaper. Allied demands for the extradition of former Emperor William of Germany, Ger-many, in which it is known America will not participate, are expected at The Hague about January 15. |